Successful ARISS contact with Ashland Greenwood High School

On Wednesday, August 29, an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact took place between Ashland Greenwood High School in Ashland, Nebraska and Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, aboard the ISS.

Anderson, an Ashland Greenwood alumnus, answered 24 questions posed to him by 8 students, as twenty-one people gathered around the radio.

The contact was broadcast on the school’s cable television station so that all 839 students could listen in. It was also available on the school’s website and publicized to the parents.

Reporters from three television stations, three newspapers and one radio station covered the event.

Twenty-four ham stations from 7 countries connected to EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) servers, including 4 repeater nodes. IRLP received 10 connections from the U.S.A. and Scotland and 7 connections to the streaming audio on its website.

Video of the event may be viewed on the News radio 1110 KFAB website.See:http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/
news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=159377&
article=2577691

The Ashland Greenwood Public School website posted this story: http://news.agps.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2007/
08/28/46d5ea4755cdd

The Lincoln ARC posted news clips from Channel 8 and Channel 10/11. See: http://www.146760.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/
YaBB.pl?num=1188431470/0

The Journal Star, the Omaha World-Herald and KETV also ran articles: http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/08/30/news/
local/doc46d60ab04e864109929910.txt

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=
2798&u_sid=10119034

http://www.ketv.com/technology/14006509/detail.html